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The purpose being that he would have to physically remove himself from the sweet spot to see the visual feedback so that listening and analyzing would become two separate things. Also, the analysis software was not taking overhead from the workstation doing the processing.

Care to cite your sources? You don't hear too many other people make this claim.

If you are serious about recording than you are going to need an interface.

Don't really think there is too much that you can do other than what you have already done. Sorry about your luck there.

Wanna save money? Keep what you have and get an ART tube pre and download Reaper.

"Alesis in their wisdom, recommend you use the free ASIO4ALL driver." Yeah, so do a lot of other manufacturers. It's a good driver and is actually updated more than a lot of manufacturer developed ASIO drivers. Don't diss.

If you had some kind of stereo guitar effects unit with RCA outs (or 1/4" to RCA adapters or even a 1/8" to RCA splitter coming out of a headphone jack) then perhaps that would work. Connecting the guitar itself to an RCA line level input probably wouldn't work to well (at least not without some...

Not too familiar with that particular unit but a friend of mine had another focusrite and swore by it.

The IO/2 itself is powered by USB. It doesn't need external power. It uses standard MIDI cables. If you have a midi keyboard that can be powered by phantom power it would power it. If you have a USB keyboard then the MIDI interface is being emulated inside the keyboard and as far as I know no...

Depends on which Multimix 4 you tried. TThe original ones where only a 2 channel stereo out and the preamps kinda sucked. The newer ones are full blown multichannel interfaces with much better pres. I am figuring that the IO/2 shares the same pres as the newer Multimix series. I doubt they are...

The Alesis IO/2. A 2 channel interface with instrument/xlr, phantom power, and midi. Just connect a midi keyboard and enjoy. Can be found between $75 - $99 depending on where you shop.

You need an interface. There are hundreds to choose from. Your motherboard will most likely come with onboard sound which is for general consumer use and will be useful for mp3's and games and such and that's about all. Same story with most consumer grade internal soundcards. Personally, I would...

A dinosaur was kept under the console and given food in exchange for adjusting the volume control on the fly.

I completely understand the benefits of a standalone. They were often cheaper and could get by with using less powerful yet purpose built risc processors and simpler operating software that could avoid the necessary layer of abstraction a general purpose cpu in a computer running a general...

It can save processing power. If you have a slow cpu and 10 simultaneous tracks with plugins are bogging down the system and you need more tracks, you can make sure they are mixed how you want them and bounce them down (mixdown) to a stereo track with all effects applied. It's similar to the...

Guess I'm shallow. I refuse to buy records if the waveforms aren't attractive.

Oh, and I have the Audi Technica m20's and they are fairly good for the price. The m50's should be smokin'.

Headphones have two disadvantages for mixing. One is they will lie about transients, especially at high volumes. The driver is too close to your head and doesn't move any actual air like a speaker does. Of course, If you haven't bothered to give your room proper treatment headphones will seem to...

It's getting hard to find consumer PC soundcards that can't do 24bit.

Ahh the whole "Don't use 24bit cuz CD's are 16bit" reasoning. If you are never going to do anything more than record your stuff at home for fun and burn a few homebrew CD's then it doesn't matter that much. If you EVER want to do anything more, it will not be enough in these modern times. If...